Ward v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence shows that Johnson settled his three daughters upon the tracts of land which he afterwards conveyed to them, promising to make each of them a deed, and telling them that they could improve it and pay the taxes, and that they would not have to account for any rents-, and that it should be their land. When he subsequently conveyed the land to them, he simply carried out the agreement which he had made with his daughters when he settled them on the land. The jand should be treated as an advancement as of the date when the deeds were made and the gift perfected.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Livesay

2. ““The well settled doctrine on this subject in this state is, that the property must be estimated at its value when the gift is perfected; that so long as the gift or devise is revocable, although the donee may be in possession with the right to use it without accounting for rents by reason of the parol gift, he is chargeable with its value at the testator’s death, or when the gift is perfected, and not when the possession was delivered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Livesay